Radio Shack Pro-96 Arizona

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Lwolf1313

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I have a Pro-96 and live in the Queen Creek area. Currently can monitor PCSO and MCSO . What else can I still monitor with this older trunk tracker? Mesa, Gilbert, A.J., Tempe, Chandler? If anone has a current P96 file for any of the above mentioned cities please let me know.
 

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Yes, it appears that it is capable of monitoring the RWC (Phoenix Regional Fire, Chandler PD, Tempe PD, etc) as well as the TOPAZ RWC (Mesa Regional Fire which dispatches Queen Creek 410-series units, Mesa/Gilbert/Apache Junction PD's).
Whether you have any simulcast multi-path interference issues common to the RWC/TOPAZ RWC reception is another question.

Mesa FD is also using analog conventional VHF, at least for dispatch. There's another thread here about future plans to expand their use of VHF.

You should also be able to receive the YRCS trunked system, which carries ADOT communications, including ALERT units (traffic control specialists who respond to incidents on the freeways when extended restrictions or closures need to be put into place) and the Enforcement and Compliance Division officers (commercial vehicle enforcement).

Maricopa County DOT has a REACT unit which is similar to ADOT's ALERT unit, but works with MCSO and munincipal PD's and FD's on road closures. They've also worked with ALERT when traffic diverted off the freeway needs to follow a specific surface street route around the closure and back on the freeway. They're on the county's trunked system, TG 912.

Rural-Metro Fire 840-series units cover the neighboring San Tan Valley area, and stations 857 & 859 cover county islands in the Mesa area, on their analog conventional VHF channels.

DPS is on analog conventional UHF. Metro East and Metro East Tac covers the I-10, 60, 24, 87, and 202 freeways. CI 1 & (especially) 2 and Statewide & State Tac are also worthwhile to have. (The Metro and Metro Tac channels are also capable of being simulcasted on the YRCS, but I haven't heard them active in many months.)

You should be able to hear Coolidge and Florence FD and PD's on analog conventional VHF, and Gila River FD on analog conventional 800 MHz if you want to. (Gila River PD is encrypted.)

John
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I have an older Pro-96. It will not trunk 700 MHz so it will be unable to monitor most of the valleys P25 systems or any system that uses 700 MHz. I have been able to get it to receive 700 MHz but it will not trunk 700 MHz. Currently only Simulcast A in the RWC is 800 MHz and it is scheduled to migrate to 700 shortly. The same is true for TOPAZ and YRCS as they are currently a mix of 700 and 800 MHz. It is also not Phase 2 capable.
You will be able to monitor MCSO ( until they move to 700 MHz), PCSO (until they create their own trunking system), DPS on VHF, the conventional FD frequencies, RMFD, PMT, SWA, and Aircraft along with some of the Indian Reservation agencies that are not encrypted.
It’s a good scanner but has been eclipsed by technology.
It should not take you long to create a template for the radio from the RR database.
 

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I have a Pro-96 and live in the Queen Creek area. Currently can monitor PCSO and MCSO . What else can I still monitor with this older trunk tracker? Mesa, Gilbert, A.J., Tempe, Chandler? If anone has a current P96 file for any of the above mentioned cities please let me know.

Hello

As Morseman said. Anything BUT! 700 Mhz trunking, P25 Phase 2. I visit Fountain Hills every year and listen to just about everything in that area with my Pro96.

73

Ermin
 

Lwolf1313

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I also have the Radio Shack Pro-668 and having the same problems as with the Pro-96. I pick up PCSO fine which is on analog conventional frequencies. I can monitor MCSO fine also. But it stops there. I have Mesa, A.J., Tempe Chandler Gilbert in both radios and only here MCSO as far as trunking systems that I am trying to monitor. In the Pro 96 I use WIN96 when monitoring and get a lot of key ups and may here a word or two and thatit. Is this the multicast problem people are talking about?
 
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